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SATIRICAL APOCALYPSE
AN ANATOMY OF MELVILLE'S THE CONFIDENCE-MAN |
| By: |
Jonathan A. Cook |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0313294046 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780313294044 |
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| Publisher: |
ABC-CLIO |
| Pub. date: |
30 April, 1996 |
| Series: |
Contributions to the Study of World Literature No. 67. |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
This work provides an analysis of "The Confidence-Man", Melville's last published novel. Reading the novel as a generic hybrid of narrative satire and apocalyptic vision, the author seeks to place the work in its implicit theological, historical and biographical contexts. |
| Synopsis: |
This valuable new addition to Melville studies offers a ground-breaking interpretation of Melville's last published novel, one of the most complex texts in American literature and a work that has long been noted for the divergent critical views it has elicited. Reading the novel as a generic hybrid of narrative satire and apolyptic vision, Cook situates the novel in its implicit theological, historical, and biographical contexts: he examines the novel's relation to Melville's heterodox ideas of the deity, to the increasingly commercialized cultural milieu of antebellum America, and to Melville's own life and literary career. Uncovering a wealth of new data on the novel's satirical applications, including its covert use of Melville's friends and family for character models, Cook offers a compelling reading of The Confidence-Man - one that is sure to influence our future conception of its creator. |
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notes, index |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Greenwood Press |
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